Clown Game-Chapter 48 - 39 Sticky Task 9
Chapter 48: Chapter 39 Sticky Task 9
Chapter 48 -39 Sticky Task 9
Looking through the gaping hole that was blasted open, “Stone” struggled to rise from the pile of bugs, and the remaining “big meat worms” were still reeling from the influence of the massive boom of the compression cannon. Their bodies twisted, still not recovering, although just now Zhao had blasted away a significant part, the remaining number was still astonishing.
“What do we do, there are so many left, we definitely don’t have enough ammo,” Hauzi peered downstairs and said.
Chen Xiao calmly slid back his magazine and said, “Actually, as long as we can contain Stone, that’s enough.”
Team Leader Li also took this gap to quickly stuff bullets into the “semi-automatic shotgun”.
“Although he is now in a parasitized state and not very agile, having injected the Keratinization Serum twice, his skin is hard like tires. Plus, with the protection of the bulletproof vest, bullets might not even work, it’s difficult to restrain him…” Team Leader Li habitually started to mutter.
Chen Xiao didn’t really listen to him but directly interrupted him.
“You can handle him, right?” he asked Team Leader Li indifferently.
Team Leader Li paused, gazing at the simple-minded young man rated “2” in thinking, blinked blankly, feeling like the other had seen right through him.
“Er… yes,” he hesitated for a moment and said, “But, it will take some time.”
“How long?” Chen Xiao asked.
Team Leader Li furrowed his brow, pondered for a while and said, “Without those bugs bothering, 1 minute!”
Chen Xiao said nonchalantly, “Oh~ call that uncle outside, tell him to evacuate the crowd as soon as possible, let all the police cars’ speakers and sirens, in short, make the loudest noise possible. We…”
“I’ll give you 1 minute!”
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A few seconds later, Stone and the larvae had recovered, and the crowd outside the door had also begun to evacuate. Chen Xiao causally walked to the big hole, looked up at the densely packed bug swarm, which would intimidate anyone with a fear of clusters, and shouted at Stone standing in the middle, chuckling, “You damn traitor!”
It was unclear whether he understood or if the sight of food reignited his desire, but the entire bug swarm boiled over, climbing up the walls even faster than before, with Stone emitting a strange cry and directly leaping up.
Chen Xiao dodged, avoiding Stone, while Team Leader Li had already taken position behind him. At this moment, he handed over the gun he had been holding to Old Zhao and took off his bulky bomb-disposal suit, revealing well-built muscles underneath, holding a combat knife in his right hand reversed, with a faint white glow emanating from the depths of his pupils.
Despite the bulletproof suit Stone wore, which consisted of an integrated steel mesh that could resist ordinary bullets due to its lightness and lack of ceramic plates, it provided poor protection against blades. Most importantly, Team Leader Li was absolutely confident that within 1 minute, he could completely incapacitate this mutated-skinned guy.
With fierce momentum, he stepped forward and grabbed the stone in mid-jump, its feet not yet touching the ground, and threw it over his shoulder into the room behind him.
“1 minute!!!” Chen Xiao shouted; at that moment, the sea of insects had already surged onto the second floor, and gunfire suddenly erupted from the trio, sending insect corpses flying.
Inside the room, unaffected by pain, the stone twisted and quickly got up. A spring knife was still sticking out of its shoulder, but it seemed that the insect didn’t know to pull it out; instead, it controlled the stone as it pounced on Captain Li like a wild beast.
At this point, Captain Li had entered a very peculiar state, akin to that of a ping-pong player who experiences a momentary “focus” during tense situations. In this state, all of his attention was concentrated on the matter at hand, undisturbed by external influences. Simultaneously, his reaction time, speed, strength, and observation were all extremely harmoniously integrated.
This was a very powerful state, generally known as “a flash of brilliance.” Captain Li could enter this focused state at will, even maintaining it for about a minute, thanks to a potent serum.
“Full-lobe stimulation serum”
Moreover, this serum was almost mandatory for all Class C areas, so why did Captain Li have it in a Class D area? We’ll talk about that later.
Taking advantage of this one minute of focus, Captain Li, holding a dagger, did not hesitate to rush toward the stone, crouching to throw himself into the opponent’s arms, his knees raised pressing against the opponent’s thigh, preventing him from lifting his leg.
Close-quarters technique!
This method of close-quarters grappling effectively restricted the opponent’s movements, and due to the insect’s control, it could not issue overly precise controls to the Host Body. Hence, for the moment, the stone could only flail wildly, pounding on Captain Li’s back.
This was precisely the outcome Captain Li wanted to see. His eyes shone brighter, his left arm raised, not quickly, but incredibly stable and powerful, his wrist’s hard bone directly pressed against the opponent’s throat. At the same time, his hips violently rammed into the opponent’s lower abdomen, sending the stone stumbling.
In that opening, Captain Li’s right arm muscles tensed instantly, as if squeezing every ounce of strength from them to thrust the dagger sharply and accurately into the still-open armpit slot of his opponent.
The skin was thick, but the knife was fast.
In that split second, the stone’s tough keratin layer spasmed from pain, tightly clamping around the blade, preventing it from penetrating further. Captain Li, already anticipating this outcome, remained incredibly calm, his expression unchanged. He withdrew his left hand from the throat, turned his palm into a fist, and struck again at the stone’s throat with minimal movement.
Although the space for the punch was small and seemed light, almost comical from the side, it gathered the strength of nearly the whole body from the calves, hips, lower back, shoulders, to the arms. The enormous impact was concentrated on the slightly protruding joint of the middle finger, forcefully breaking through the resistance of the stone’s thick skin and precisely hitting the airway deep beneath it.
A moment of suffocation.
In that instant, Captain Li roared softly, driving the blade deep into the joint and, leveraging upward, cut through the tendons connecting the shoulder to the arm.
This sequence of motions occurred swiftly, within just half a minute, and during that half minute, the swarm of insects had almost made a breakthrough.
At that moment, Mouser and Chen Xiao held their pistols, Old Zhao had a gun in his left hand and Captain Li’s “semi-automatic shotgun” in his right prosthetic arm, which was quite powerful. However, guns eventually run out of bullets, and even though Mouser’s “I’m rich” style of changing guns was quick, it still took some time. So, in that second when the bullets ran out, a large, fleshy worm directly lunged at Mouser. Its leech-like mouthparts firmly latched onto his thigh, thankfully impeded by the bulletproof vest, keeping the creature temporarily away from his flesh. However, possessing some intelligence, it began to burrow into his trouser leg as soon as it realized it could not bite through.
Mouser cursed, “F*ck!” He looked down and shot the “little guy” to pieces. But that moment created a gap in the gunfire blockade, and the swarm crazily surged forth!
“Cover your mouths!” Chen Xiao yelled, immediately clamping his mouth shut, and the other two clenched their teeth tightly, none wanting to become the next ‘Rock’.
The swarm failed to hold their ground and instantly enveloped the three, charging toward Captain Lee and Rock. At that moment, Captain Lee had driven the spring knife deep into the joint of Rock’s shoulder, while his other hand had just pulled out the short knife that had severed the left leg’s tendons.
Rock lay on the ground, with only one leg still frantically kicking. The white light in Captain Lee’s eyes gradually faded, his concentration inevitably unable to maintain any longer.
Seeing the insect sea rushing toward him, a trace of helplessness flashed in Captain Lee’s eyes.
“To die here?” This thought crossed his mind.
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Just then, suddenly a siren blared from outside!
Following that, several cars’ alarms and numerous honking sounds came simultaneously, some exceptionally loud, probably because someone had attached a megaphone to the siren.
On hearing such a tremendous noise, the insect sea instantly began to panic, painfully twisting their bodies.
The three men stood up, still with several large, red-and-black fat caterpillars sticking to them.
“Is it over?” Chen Xiao asked, looking at Rock lying on the ground, his clothes already torn, and his suit soaked with blood.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Captain Lee knew this sound might not hold off the swarm for long. He hoisted Rock onto his shoulders and said, “Let’s get out first!”
Mouse, with a disgusted expression, shook off the insects on him. Thanks to his bulletproof vest, he looked significantly better than Chen Xiao.
“What about these insects?” he asked.
Chen Xiao had already turned and leapt swiftly from the hole to the first floor, shouting, “You guys, go!”
After speaking, he stepped on the writhing insects on the floor and headed to the kitchen. With the butt of his gun, he went “bang bang” twice, breaking open the gas valve.
The others, catching the hint, quickly scrambled toward the main door. During this time, probably due to the noise, Rock’s still moving leg also quieted down a lot.
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Finally, the four people awkwardly ran out of the villa, and Chen Xiao followed right behind them. Outside, a group of policemen stared at them, dumbfounded at their appearances.
The police captain, seemingly accustomed to seeing the Field Operations team in such sorry states after missions, wore an expression that seemed to anticipate this outcome, and Chen Xiao noticed that he had even prepared an ambulance during this time.
Captain Lee threw the still twitching Rock into the ambulance and shouted to the driver, “Play music!”
The driver was confused, “Huh???” Clearly bewildered. Seeing this guy paralyzed in three limbs along with an epileptic look all over, are you celebrating with music?
Captain Lee roared fiercely, “Just play it when I tell you to,” then he casually threw the loudspeaker from the hands of a person nearby into the vehicle.
“Play this! Heavy metal rock!” he yelled menacingly.
The driver was clearly scared, nodding repeatedly, “Okay! okay!”
Just then!
“BOOM!!!!!!!”
An earth-shattering explosion.
Drowned out all the alarm sounds.
Captain Lee looked over, and not far away the villa had blasted apart, huge flames instantly enveloping the whole building, sending burning fragments of rocks and wood into the sky, falling all around.
And Chen Xiao stood in front of the inferno, covered in blood.
He was grinning, though no sound came out
But the firelight illuminated his face, made more grotesque by the blood,
Captain Lee saw
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Him!
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Smiling!
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